Site problem

[RayAllen]

Guys everytime I try to get on Maast the last couple of days I get this. What I am having to do is go to google or yahoo to try and get on. Sometimes it works other times not.



http://www.maast.org/image.php?type=dberror
Database error


The MAAST Forums database has encountered a problem.





Please try the following:

Load the page again by clicking the Refresh (http://www.maast.org/content.php#) button in your web browser.
Open the www.maast.org (http://www.maast.org/) home page, then try to open another page.
Click the Back button to try another link.




The www.maast.org forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them (greenmako@sbcglobal.net) if the problem persists.



We apologise for any inconvenience.

[Scream311]

ANSWER IS HERE FRIEND,

http://www.maast.org/showthread.php?76218-Maast-down-time-tonight

[Mr Cob]

Just a note for Robert, the CONTACT is still linked to Brian's email, our old web developer

contact them (greenmako@sbcglobal.net)


*nevermind, apparently Brian is still around. lol Hi Brian...when are you going to bless us with a new tank dude? Miss your old SPS beast.

[RayAllen]

Thanks

[rrasco]

Yeah, Brian is still around, just busy from what I can tell.

I didn't even know he was working on anything last night though.

[alton]

Okay I am getting this all the time

Database error
The MAAST Forums database has encountered a problem.
________________________________________
Please try the following:
• Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
• Open the www.maast.org home page, then try to open another page.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

The www.maast.org forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.


We apologise for any inconvenience.


What I do is a search for a MAAST post on the world wide web and go in the back door and everything works fine?

[Scream311]

Yes, same here.

has been goin on since last week.

Troy and i were just talking abou this, i showed him the search method and it works, but yes is an inconvience

[FireWater]

I assure you it is being worked on. Brian an Robert have been busy trying to fix it.

[edshas2]

Have been getting that error also, what i have done is saved a link to a thread that i have previously been on, then use that link to open maast, always works that way.

[Mr Cob]

Have been getting that error also, what i have done is saved a link to a thread that i have previously been on, then use that link to open maast, always works that way.

lol, yeah I did the same

[rrasco]

Wait...so if the threads load directly the database is working. What pages are you experiencing this error on?

[alton]

Just getting to the website, once I am on no problems

[alton]

What I do is go to the mighty web and type aquarium on MAAST get something like this

http://www.maast.org/showthread.php?63864-All-SOLD-70-gallon-DSA-stand-sump-canopy-light-extras

Click on it and I am in to do what ever I want. Right now I am not having any issue getting on the site from my favorites

[rrasco]

I'm trying to determine if it's a specific page or an overall problem. If I had to say one way or another, it's an overall problem and when you do get to the site it's working overall as well.

[edshas2]

if you type in maast in google and click on that link it will take you tho the homepage, i believe that is where the problem is. Right now it seems to be working but at times it doesnt.

[Scutterborn]

Just for reference and not bragging, Tapatalk has had zero issues connecting. Don't know if its because its accessing through an app or not. Just thought I'd chime in with a possible piece of the puzzle.


- Ben -

[rrasco]

Different files with less queries, since it doesn't have to go get all the other various parts of the page that load on the main site. As it stands right now, MySQL is averaging 16 questions a second.

[FireWater]

Robert, can you break that down into layman's terms?

[Zen Reef]

Different files with less queries, since it doesn't have to go get all the other various parts of the page that load on the main site. As it stands right now, MySQL is averaging 16 questions a second.

Phone app good. You buy now!

[rrasco]

Robert, can you break that down into layman's terms?

The different methods of accessing the site load different files. Tapatalk is lightweight because it only cares about the posts and minor other details. When you load the site in a browser it looks up all kinds of things like theme options, member options, whos online, etc. A query is an inquiry to the database, "give me this from there". We are averaging 16 of those per second, which is pretty intensive. We need to reduce that load.

[Scream311]

Phone app good. You buy now!

:lauging:

[greenmako]

did some tweaking so far I'm not seeing the same mysql errors, please report here if you notice any more errors.
Thanks,
Brian

[FireWater]

Thanks Brian. I was getting some reports of the database error from members today.

[greenmako]

Yea I saw a couple that were authentication errors but so far I haven't seen the caching issues which was around 100+ a day.

[FireWater]

Thanks again for the work you're putting. I'm sure everyone appreciates it.